Heather Foster

Sedona Sunset with Yucca, Original Painting

2024

Artist Comments
A yucca stretches toward the fiery Sedona sunset, where bright oranges and pinks fill the sky. Soft brushstrokes blend dry grasses with rugged terrain. By incorporating repurposed charcoal collected from a forest fire and a water-drip effect, the piece demonstrates nature's resilience, community adaptability, and the beauty found through this lens.

About the Artist
Artist Heather Foster captures an enduring image of the West. She paints the dramatic landscapes and stalwart animals she encounters on her adventures to ranches and rodeos. Heather says she has always known she wanted to be an artist. As a child, she spent her weekends and summers riding the bus into Philadelphia to attend art classes at Philadelphia College of Art, Moore College of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Over the years, she's moved around the country quite a bit and done many jobs - everything from driving a pedicab (a giant tricycle that transports passengers) to art restoration and conservation (for one project, she unstretched and then restretched a $17 million painting that would not fit through the door of the buyer's house). The one constant though, no matter where she lived or what side jobs she held, she always made space and time to paint. Today, she works from a home studio in Santa Fe, painting from thousands of reference photographs she shoots on her travels. Her artwork has been featured in the magazines Southwest Art, American Art Collector, and Western Art Collector, and published in the books Art Journey New Mexico and The Book of the Horse.

Words that describe this painting: Sedona, mesa, sunset, yucca, Arizona, forest, desert, cliff, dusk, plants, foliage, impressionism, nature, western, mixed media artwork, yellow

Sedona Sunset with Yucca
Heather Foster
Acrylic paint and charcoal on cradled wood panel
Finished edges
Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2024
24 in. h x 20 in. w x 1.5 in. d
3 lbs. 2 oz.